Costs, Complexities and Capabilities. Small business' everywhere struggle with these challenges. If you're still relying on legacy systems to keep the lights on or spending the bulk of your day babysitting redundant backup tasks, you're not alone.
The war against ransomware is real and everyone must be prepared for an attack on their data. The good news is that by preparing in advance, you can align to a framework that provides a reliable strategy when status quo operations are disrupted.
The growth and evolution of ransomware is one of the most destructive trends of the last decade. This explosion has moved ransomware from an economic crime to one with immense global security implications. NATO, the US federal government and military, and the G7 have all recently acknowledged the severity of the ransomware threat and the need for large-scale coordinated response from government and industry.
43% Of all cyberattacks target small to medium size business – non enterprise environments. Due to lack of funds and/or resources, smaller companies typically do not implement high security measures thus establishing themselves as lucrative targets for ransomware attacks.
Keeping an eye on what’s going on in your network is critical in so many ways. Network monitoring tools offer many benefits, and with the advancements of technology today, there are a plethora of tools to help monitor an entire network.
As the threat of ransomware continues to increase, it is essential for SMBs to secure common vulnerabilities to lower their risk of suffering from a cyberattack. Vulnerabilities are underlying weaknesses associated with a certain system, and if not identified in time - can expose a system to a potential threat.
Businesses today are all at risk of facing a disaster that can inflict a high risk to the business. The implementation of a business continuity strategy has never been more necessary in order to minimize essential data loss, maximize productivity & efficiency, and to ensure uptime. Ask yourself, do you know exactly how much an outage could cost your business if you were faced with a potential IT disaster? If you don't, your company is putting it's most valuable asset, data, up for risk.
How will your business be impacted by a disaster? Traditional replication and DR solutions were not designed for the virtualized data centers of today. And recovery from these new, virtualized environments may not give you the results you need. Protecting data is an ongoing challenge and to ensure business continuity, it's important to know how well your business can recover from a disaster event/outage.
Being able to achieve business continuity is vital to a business during a data loss event. This Runbook template will be a living document that your team can update and change at any time. By utilizing this template, IT teams can reduce human errors and bring machines back on line efficiently during what could be a very stressful time.
There are many factors that separate a great disaster recovery plan from a good one such as infrastructure, cloud provider, replication technology, cost, etc. True disaster recovery encompasses taking data from one site to another site where the data will be safe and separate from the event you encounter.
Ransomware is becoming an increasing risk due to the appearance of ransomware as a target and ransomware kits on the dark web. Understanding the scope of ransomware and how if could affect your business may help you decide if your Backup/DR plan is up to the challenge.
There are many factors to consider when it comes to how fast your systems recover from a backup. Are you recovering from incremental, differential, or full backups?
According to HelpNet Security, while 91% of individuals back up data and devices, 68% still lose data as a result of accidental deletion, hardware or software failure, or an out of date backup. 85% of organizations aren't backing up multiple times a day.
